I know it’s Tuesday, but since yesterday I was out of my routine, today feels like Monday. I’m glad it isn’t. What did we do this weekend?

Let me think. Saturday morning, we went to the Children’s Museum, where it’s dark so I had to use the on-board flash. Boo!

Pictures like this make me smile because, wow, they really are identical, eh?

Later, after the rain stopped, we went to the park, where the boys got thoroughly filthy.

Sunday morning, I took the boys to Granny & Grandpa’s house to spend the night, since I had a work thing for the next two days. Then I worked for two days, which you don’t want to hear about. Yesterday, after I was finished doing work stuff, I picked up the boys and took them to an awesome park, which I mostly covered yesterday. After the boys went down the cool triple slide for the first time, I heard a woman behind me call a friend to tell her about the lady with the triplets. A little rude, I thought. At least she could have waited until I was out of earshot. Oh well. The boys had a great time, and I can’t wait to take them back to that park.

This is my entry this week for the I Heart Faces “Chalk” challenge. I don’t have too many pictures of the boys with chalk, but I like this one of Oliver getting the outline treatment from Aunt Ren.

I will put the exciting news at the bottom because, well, it’s kind of gross, to be honest, and I don’t want to make everyone read it, unless they want to. (It’s potty training-related, if that isn’t obvious.)

First, let me say, I love this age. Yes, it has its challenges, but the boys are so funny and so cute and just say the best things. And they’re getting a little more self-sufficient and they’re learning so much. It’s just fun.

I had to go to Target after work yesterday to pick up a prescription, and while I could have gone before getting the boys from daycare, where’s the fun in that? I like a little challenge in my day. So I brought them with me. Without the wagon or anything (which isn’t unusual anymore. We haven’t been using the wagon much at all lately, except for walks in the neighborhood.)

They were good. First, we stopped at the Dollar Spot because there were Sesame Street figurines for a buck, and as it happens, I’ve been searching for some that they can use in their SS playset. Score! Then, we passed the lingerie department, and you know how that went. We were heading towards the diaper section so I could pick up some pull-ups (for daycare).

They said hi to Diego.

Then hi to the babies on the swing box.

We needed to cross the store and the toy section was between us and the other side. Uh oh. So I chased them down a center aisle, and we successfully passed the toys without the boys seeing them. Whew!

Look Mommy! Pumpkins!

Ick. Yucky, yucky candy. Don’t worry, boys, Mommy will take care of your Halloween candy.

“Oooh, that’s hot!” (They see a fire bowl thingy)

And then, my biggest mistake. The coloring book aisle. It took us ten minutes and $6 to get out of there.

And then there were fights over a bottle of water, and of course a million “are those triplets??!?!?”* comments but all in all, a good trip.

*I act like I hate these comments, but you know I really love them.

Okay, so here’s the exciting news. It’s kind of a funny story.

So this morning, when I went to get the boys out of bed, Linus was saying “I got poo-poo.” I thought he meant he had a poopy diaper, so I said, “okay, I’ll change it.” But it wasn’t poopy. So I asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty. And he said yes. And so he sat on the potty and asked me to fetch his dinosaur book. No, not that one, the yellow one. When he asked for reading material, I knew he was serious. And voila, a few minutes later, he called for me. Yes! He pooped on the potty!

Hurrah!

And yet, none of these kids have peed on the potty at home. So weird.

The weather was relatively mild this weekend (I think the heat index only got up into the high 90s that day) so my friend Terry and I took her two girls and my boys to the zoo. The kids wanted nothing more than to ride the carousel a million times, but we forced them to look at animals, too. We’re so mean.

Their favorite animals are the inanimate ones.

Oh, and drains are cool too:

See how excited they were to be there?

We did some experimenting with camouflage: (let’s just say it’s not their forte)

FINALLY, we rode the carousel:

Fun!